Voices in the Week's News: November 30, 2007

Environmental enforcement
actions were on a lot of minds recently, but they weren't only stories in the
news this week.

The ski season opened with a
big weekend, the farm bill continued to be mired in Congress and one of the
state's biggest agencies presented a re-organization plan to the
Legislature. Here's a listen to some of
the voices in the news this week.

(Okemo
spokeswoman Bonnie Macpherson)
"The days leading up to the weekend were cold so we could make lots of
snow.And then we had two glorious blue
bird sunny sky days that brought the skiers out in droves."

(Robert
Dostis, Vermont Campaign to End Childhood Hunger) "We cannot delay implementation of this bill. It is just
unconscionable given the recent statistics put out by the USDA that showed
hunger in this country, in Vermont,
is on the rise."

(Roberta
MacDonald, Cabot Creamery senior vice president) "We signed an agreement that says we will prove or show how we
train people and make them aware of the environmental consequences of the
material we handle. We will do more than what we’ve done before. We will do
more than what is expected."

(Bruce Foucart, Immigration and Customs Enforcement) "These organizations pose a national
security threat as would-be terrorists, criminals and others who may mean harm
to us. These individuals can often access the same routes and use the same
methods as smugglers use to gain access to this country.''

(State Senator Susan Bartlett) "Something this major, I
believe it's important that two branches of government participate in. And that
this just isn't something that the executive does when you're taking something
this big... and you show at the legislature and say, how do you like it?"